CROWN PRINCE’S STORY
How Royal Family Escaped (Received October 3, 11.20 p.m.) OTTAWA, October 3. How the Italian Royal Family passed unmolested through the German lines to southern Italy following the German occupation of .Koine was related iby Crown Prince Umberto in an interview with the representatives of the Montreal “Gazette” in Potenza. “When we heard that the Germans were moving into Rome my father decided he must carry on his duties at a place not occupied Iby the Germans. . When Mussolini fell German soldiers in Italy heard 1 a rumour that Hitler had been killed. They fairly jumped for joy, believing the -war was over. I think that is why our car got through their lines in safety.” An aide-de-camp said the Germans may have mistaken the Royal party for army officers moving to the front. He added that the party boarded an Italian torpedoboat at midnight and headed southward. The King slept for eight hours on the open deck of the little craft, “not bad for his 73 years.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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171CROWN PRINCE’S STORY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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